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Automaton

by Harvey McLaughlin

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Automaton 03:27
If you loved me just a quarter of as much as I love you We’d sail across the cosmos just like the mystics do Wind me pretty baby wind me up and watch me go Go through every motion just like I did before Automaton I heard stories of a soldier about a hundred years ago On this very ground he stood and he pledged his love to her He offered her the ocean but she did not feel the same Took his battle worn bayonet and opened up his jugular vein Automaton Automaton Wind me up and watch me go Just like I did before Cast me through the shadows through the silhouettes and steam Schemes and machinations just cogs inside my dreams Wind me pretty baby wind me up and watch me go Go through every motion just like I did before Automaton Automaton Wind me up and watch me go Just like I did before
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Devil O Devil Let me take you by the hand Cause I can hold it hotter Than anybody can Let me down easy If I’m coming on too strong Devil O Devil Do me wrong Devil O Devil Do me wrong
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Gonna talk about Jesus our lord and savior Talk about Jesus our lord and savior I flap my wings and say such silly things And it’s all gonna be all right Gonna talk about lovin’ and a little murder Gonna talk about lovin’ and a little murder I just don’t understand what’s inside a man And it’s all gonna be all right I know the devil’s got ahold of your soul I know he makes you do all the things you can’t control I know you’re going baptized in a lake of fire I know your virtue’s outweighed by your desire Gonna talk about Rapture and Ragnarok now Gonna talk about Rapture and Ragnarok now Well all across the land the Judgement Day’s at hand And it’s all gonna be all right Well all across the land the Judgement Day’s at hand And it’s all gonna be all right

about

This room has ghosts.

Ghosts that scream and wail in the oblivion as if they were shooting dice and drinking in an all night lounge. Ghosts that speak in tongues. Ghosts that dress from some other world, some other time in the past - I’m talking corsets and JNCO jeans.

I can hear them on this record (at least I think I can).

It wasn’t the intention to disturb these spirits; I didn’t even bring a ouija board to the sessions. But when they heard what we were doing, they made their presence known and demanded to be involved. It was not an easy process, as collaboration with the after world is arduous and intense. Have you ever tried harmonizing with a spectre?? There’s nothing like a poltergeist banging on your piano top for not staying on tempo.

We did these recordings analog style on a temperamental reel-to-reel, deep in the belly of a vault-like basement on October 21st 2018. We recorded way more than intended and most of it got cut. What you’re hearing here is a snapshot of what was floating around us at the time and I’m very proud to capture the mood, in all its ghostly glory.

Thanks to all y’all that made this real - living, dead and undead.

Harvey Mclaughlin
September 2019

credits

released October 4, 2019

written & produced by harvey mclaughlin

recorded & mixed by tommy munter
in the alamo music fallout basement
additional production at matador studios

harvey mclaughlin - lead vocal, piano, banjo
joseph slocum - bass
andrea wood - guitars, additional vocals
chadwick gonzales - drums, bongos, shakers, marimba
alexus lozano - additional vocals

all titles published by Saustex Songs - BMI

special thanks to alamo music

for flern

harvey mclaughlin will return in “revenge of the gremlin’s ghost”

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Harvey McLaughlin San Antonio, Texas

Harvey McLaughlin is an old man trapped in a young man's body. Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Tom Waits, Warren Zevon, Randy Newman and that dude with the crazy hair from 'Ancient Aliens' and a comic book geek all rolled into one defiantly contemporary package. ... more

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